40 days in the books for me since starting this challenge. That’s 4,000 push-ups! I’m glad to see Bitcoin rallying so hard with the hope that we will soon be able to declare victory over this challenge. With a little luck we’ll get there before the halving so we can all get some much needed rest for our muscles.
Just 10 days for me.. In a very short time I have tried to make some variation in my quality of life, although I have increased my push-ups but only slightly.I'm a bit fat so it's hard for me..actually I'm doing 6 push-ups, 2 times a day, afternoon and night. Just I going to walk in the morning. I'm feeling nice participating with you, I haven't lost weight yet but I hope it will if I do regular push-ups.
You started this thread with a push-up of $100k of bitcoins with a good will and I think your aim was initially successful. Now bitcoin price is going up and down from $70k to $72k...maybe it will take some time to reach $100k...I think if the price doesn't reach $100 a in this session then you can open 2nd session again or next 3rd session..Just like we can't do 100 push-ups at once, splitting the session. You can split the session too.
I just shared my idea.
It is good that you are doing something rather than nothing, but it seems that you need a certain number of reps, and I am not sure how you get that, because 12 pushups in a day do not seem like very many.. .. and maybe there could be ways to do modified pushups.. if you are not already doing modified pushups in order to increase your reps.. and maybe work up to 5 sets of 5 or something like that.. and maybe add 1 more push up every day or every few days.... If you are doing full body pushups and ONLY getting 6 pushups, then that might be too much strain on you body, and so it would be good to work up to a set of 10, even if they are modified.
In contemplation of your goals and maybe how much weight you are pushing,
this article has some suggestions regarding repetitions and sets.
If your objective is strength or power (think: heavy lifting), the textbook advice is to perform 3 to 5 sets of 2 to 6 reps per exercise. For hypertrophy (building muscle), the sweet spot is 3 to 4 sets of 6 to 12 reps. And if your objective is muscular endurance, shoot for 2 to 3 sets of 12 to 20 reps.
Of course some of our considerations may well be a little bit different since we are spreading our sets out through the whole day, and so yeah there could be a question of priority too if you are combining other exercises because if you are just building up, you don't want to overdo it since if this is mostly a daily routine, it would be good to have some pushups in there every day and maybe some attempt to emphasize push ups and maybe trying to get up to more than 20 per day in order to work towards getting to 100 - even though for some of us, it might not be possible to get to 100 any time soon. so we just do what we can, while hopefully continuing to build ourselves, without overdoing it..